Thanks for the suction cup suggestion! I've got something juryrigged now with nails, but if it doesn't work I'll definitely do that.
Went to a movie and felt sorry for myself for about two minutes. Not being home is starting to get to me. I got a package of Christmas cds and some placemats today, and they said they're not putting up the tree until the wayward daughters (me and eldest younger sister) are home, which is sweet.
So this is my decoration! Also a bow on the door, placemats on the table, two candles, and the music. Not to rival Corin's, but it's my first year doing this on my own, you know! It looks really really cool from outside and nobody else in the complex has got lights yet.
Ditto Suzi's exhortation to go to a craft store. Get yerself one of those miniature trees and some little decorations.
In other news, I have just finished the first experimental (heh heh heh) batch of fudge... cooked in a big cast iron skillet just like Dad did. We will test it (heh heh heh) in about an hour when it cools. I'm going to need lots of practice (heh heh heh) to be as good at it as he was.
Looks vey festive! I bought some new lights this year for the bushes in front of the house. All the old ones worked on one half of the string, but not on the other; vey strange! I also bought a thin 4 1/2 ft. tree in a planter that was pre-lit. JoAnn Fabrics had it for $30!! It was supposedly $70 off, but I certainly would never have paid $100 for that tree. I'll use it in the set up for the Pictures with St. Nicholas that my Girl Scouts are going to do next weekend at the Parish school's Holly Fair.